Only at Rutgers: Unique Resources Related to Selden D. Bacon
Sociologist Selden D. Bacon is best known at Rutgers for being the CAS Director who brought the Center of Alcohol Studies to Rutgers from Yale in 1962, no small feat … Read More
Judit Hajnal Ward
Promoting the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection
Even if it’s going to be a never-ending project, the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection is now in good enough shape that it can be promoted widely. We even have … Read More
It Takes a Village: The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives at Rutgers
[Press release to introduce the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection by Judit H. Ward, Nicholas Allred, and William Bejarano, September, 2023.] The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives is an open access … Read More
Only at Rutgers: Unique Resources Related to E.M. Jellinek
E. M. Jellinek has been described as “the Renaissance Man who brought alcohol studies out of the Dark Ages” by Dr. Thomas Babor, Editor-in-Chief of JSAD (2015-2023), recipient of the Jellinek … Read More
Highlights from Sabbatical Leave Project Report
Dedicated solely to this project, my first ever (and probably last) sabbatical leave came to an end on June 30, 2023. In my report I called it “highly successful,” with … Read More
Time to Say Goodbye?
Or is it? This site was created in 2020 as a temporary Alcohol Studies Archives, that is the online version of the Special Collections and Archives that used to be … Read More
Month Six: The Show Must Go On
Wrapping up six months focusing on a single major project is a delightful period indeed. The journey is just as important as the destination as I discovered long ago. In … Read More
Alcohol History in Red Boxes: McCarthy Collection
My personal favorite, the Raymond G. McCarthy Memorial Collection is housed in their spectacular, custom made archival cases on the second floor in the Annex. Among the dusty old items, … Read More
Treasure of the Month: The First Summer School of Alcohol Studies
Eighty years ago it must have looked like a rather ambitious attempt to bring together a diverse group of people on the Yale University campus for a six-week summer program … Read More
William L. Keaton, a Black Pioneer of Alcohol Counseling
In 2010-2011, the CAS library received 32 boxes of archival materials from the widow of a trailblazing alcohol counselor and graduate of both the Yale and Rutgers Summer Schools of … Read More